Creative Juices Keep Flowing

Over the years, Karen Langer Baker has worked at a number of jobs. The Fallbrook resident was a teacher, award-winning artist, real estate agent, child birth educator and hypnotherapist. Although the jobs were all very different they were connected by a common theme -- in each, Langer Baker drew from her reservoir of creativity to make a difference. She used her creativity to help market properties while a real estate agent and reach out to gifted children as well as those with learning disabilities as a teacher. “I don’t spend 100 percent of my time in art,” she explained. “I’m a born teacher.” Although traditional art – drawing, painting and sculpture -- is her first love, this active 72-year-old also dabbles in the healing arts. Born into a medical family, she believes she was put on this earth to help people heal themselves. She is a former director of the Brandon Gallery and an active member of the only artists’ co-op in Southern California. Every month she oversees exhibits in Brandon’s Et Cetera Gallery. Langer Baker also is president of the Fallbrook Art Association, whose 300 members help support the arts with scholarships to deserving students and bring arts to elementary school students at military bases. Examples of her work can be seen at Brandon Gallery, Brothers Bistro, the Professional Office Building in Fallbrook and the Fallbrook Area Visitors Bureau where she is featured artist of the month. A self-portrait taken from her driver’s license photo hangs in the bureau office that she put together with scraps and bits of paper from magazines. “I’m smiling because I got 100 percent on my driver’s test,” she says.

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